"Dear World,I exist.Deal with it."
- Joyce Rachelle
"There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it."
"Dear Teenage Self,That guy you're crazy about,Will ask you out On a dateIn about ten years, so don't fretYou'll get there yet.But fate is cruelOn that day,That feeling will have gone away."
"There is more to hear in what is not said."
"Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch."
"And with the Savior's passing came Satan's sure defeatChrist whispered, "It is finished," for payment was complete.I could not earn salvation, it's been dispensed for freeAnd mercy's gates would open,..."
"Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them."
"Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?"
"If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me."
"Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?"